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Show KIWANIANS ARE IN WONDERFUL TRIM Special Irish Rporter Icon O'Clast, Reprsentins: the Irish in America Sent to Secure An Acount of the Bloody Rotary-Kiwanis Struggle. The city dump yard, training quarter. quar-ter. for tho World Famous Klwants Basobalf- Aggregation, 3:32. a. a. (early morning practlco)"' April 19. I caught Skipper' Jensen early thU morning Just aa he waa taking the curling papers out of his balr and C't u red hot Interview on the re-r. re-r. i l.ablo pcito'mance i-f the world beater Klwanlan baseball team.. "The game's a cinch," said Curly Joe. "One Bldo la suro to win." My men are doing stunts never seen on a baseball diamond before. Dr. It. ' O. (Tubby) Porter has a cnr.f that) no Rolarlan can poslsbly hit eveti If' one gets near It and Tubby won't let ilm get near It. He has bn. turning turn-ing his wife's washing machine every day now to get his arm in shape und he does a day's wash ever' time he winds up. "Modesty prevents me saying anything any-thing about my work behind tho bat but I will say this that I have never done better. At early practice, this morning I caught every ball, a night hawk and a cold. "The mo3t spectacular peiformanc in tho field Is Dr. W. L. (Dude) , Wunlass. He stop.1) 'cm with his i feet. BUI Thaln surprised us this mottling. Ho nearly caught a fly ball John O. (Parson) Peterson can klcK tho bnll with wonderful precision to nny part of the field. At this morning's morn-ing's practleo he placed three tomato toma-to cans In tho outfield and "Parson" diopped the ball In each. "There Is only one maa on the IRotarlan team who we nro really afraid of. That lsjr. Reynolds. Ev-.ery Ev-.ery one of my men say every lltno Dr. Reynolds looks at him he feels that he ought to havo his tonsils removed re-moved and he wants to run., I am .volng to have Doc. barred." j' Tho spirit of the Klwanlans Is remarkable re-markable They have been eating raw boef for ten days now and are ferocloUH. They .proclaim a battle royal for Friday afternoon and everyone every-one has pledged himself and at least ono lady to tho dance Friday evening If ho survives. In all my experience as a war correspondent cor-respondent I havo never seen a battle bat-tle that was as bloody as this contest promises to be. |